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I think it would be a difficult sell - the cross country portion of eventing
in Greece was significantly shortened in length due to the cost/challenges
of such a big course. I would think endurance would pose exponential
problems along those lines.

Kristen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:25 AM
> To: Maryanne Gabbani
> Cc: susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ridecamp
> Subject: Re: [RC] The Olympics
>
> Maryanne Gabbani wrote:
>
> > The IOC has been lobbying to get rid of equestrian 
> competition in the 
> > Olympics for quite a while, so I suspect that the FEI 
> agenda (they got 
> > some major financial backing from the cash prizes offered 
> by the UAE 
> > in endurance for a while) and the IOC agenda were not in 
> synch.  AHHH, 
> > politics and finance.  Who needs soap operas when the world 
> is out there?
> > Maryanne
> > cynically in Cairo
> The new head of the IOC has stated that there are too many 
> sports in the Olympics and they are in the process of cutting 
> sports out - not adding new ones. I believe that both 
> baseball and softball - both with much bigger appeal than any 
> equestrian event have been cut for the 2008 games. I suspect 
> getting a new equestrian sport into the Olympics will be near 
> on to impossible. As long as they leave womens beach 
> volleyball alone that would be good.
>
> Truman


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